Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age

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Ericka Beckman Capital Fictions Final proofs for press December 6, 2012, Page 245245 245 accounting and deceit, 181–85 accumulation by dispossession, use of term, 114. See also dispossession ; primitive accumulation advertising and Spanish American modernismo, 61–69 aesthetics, Spanish American, 47, 63–65, 151–55. See also modernismo , Spanish American Age of Development, xi–xii Argirópolis (Sarmiento), 12–13, 16, 88 Aguinaga, Carlos Blanco, 60 Alberdi, J. B., 57, 93, 110 Alonso, Carlos, 18, 178–79 Álvarez-Curbelo, Silvia, 5–6 Amado, Jorge, 165 América Ilustrada, La (newspaper), 3, 21 American Bank of Guatemala, 7 anti-immigration sentiments, 91, 96, 111–12 anti-Semitism, 110–15, 219 (note 20), 220 (note 23) Arana, Julio César, 161–62 Arbenz, Jacobo, 193–94 À rebours (Huysmans), 137, 150 Argentina: barbarism in, 12, 16; financial crisis in, xxv, xxix, 83–84, 86, 112–13, 116, 124–25; commodity production in, 13; indigenous people, treatment of, 101–2, 110; on Jews and finance, 110–15; liberalism in, 93, 96, 110; speculation in, 101–2. See also Bolsa, La (Martel); Baring Crisis; Desert Campaign; Sarmiento, D. F. Ariel (Rodó), 151–53 Autumn of the Patriarch, The (Garc ía Márquez), vii–viii, ix Azul (Darío): art and fantasy in, 48, 52; bourgeois in, 48–51; consumption as compensation in, 54–60; modernismo in, 46–52; on writing as commodity , 49–50 Balestra, Juan, 88, 89 Balmaceda, Pedro, 59 banana industry, x, 34, 191–94, 196–97 Banco Nacional de Colombia, 121–23, 156 bankruptcy, 124–25, 155–57 banks, British: and financial instability , 85–86, 113–14; investments by, xvii, 85–88, 113, 147, 217 (note 5) Banville, Teódore, 71–72 barbarism/civilization dichotomy. See under civilization Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules, 150 Baring Crisis (Argentina, 1890), 87–90, 94, 109, 113, 124 Barrios government (Guatemala), 37–38 Baudelaire, Charles, 104 Bauer, Arnold J., 45 Bechtel Corporation, viii Bello, Andrés, 29, 140, 192 Benjamin, Walter, xvii, 53, 125, 157 Blanco Fombona, Rufino, 61 Index beckman.indd 245 12/6/2012 8:54:44 PM Ericka Beckman Capital Fictions Final proofs for press December 6, 2012, Page 246 Index 246 Eric Cap Fina Dec bohemian, use of term, 59–60 Bolívar, Simón, 140, 147 Bolivia: economic catastrophe in, 124–25; as poor, 83; water privatization in, viii; wealth creation in, 3–4, 21, 83. See also “Riquezas de Bolivia, Las” Bolsa, La (Martel): anti-Semitism in, 110–15; domestic household in, 115–18; and fictitious capital, 96–98, 100–101, 103–4, 174; genesis and publication, 91, 104–9; memory and forgetting in, 118–20; as stock market novel, 91–94; as therapy for financial crisis, 109–10 boom/bust cycles: Baring Crisis, 87–90, 94, 109, 113, 124; and capitalism, 118; economic extremes of, 84–86; and Export Age, ix, 85; and land, 89; psychic structure of, 136–39; rubber boom, 159–62; stories of, xvii–xviii. See also specific commodities bourgeois culture: absorption of, xvi–xvii, xxvii, 56, 166–67; and commodity production, 50, 204 (note 7); decadent aesthetes vs., 129–30, 134–35; on domestic household, 116; global, 58; ideology, 59, 104, 129–30, 150, 215 (note 10); and import consumption, 57–58, 61, 65, 142; and interior space, 53, 71; king (figure), 48–52, 58, 73, 214 (note 6); labor contracts, 49, 52; and liberalism, xx, xxii, 3, 28–29, 209 (note 12); opposition to art, 49–50, 59, 60; use of term 214 (note 6) Brantlinger, Patrick, 103–4 Brazil: boom/bust cycles, 83–84, 86, 90, 95, 119; coffee production in, 33; commodity consumption in, xxix, 54–56; Manaus, 160–61, 180; modernismo, 212 (note 2); slavery in, 59–60. See also rubber boom, Amazonian British banks. See banks, British Brown, Bill, 215 (note 9) Brown, Laura, 115 Buck Morss, Susan, 215 (note 12) Bulmer-Thomas, Victor, xii–xiii, 4 Cambaceres, Eugenio, 93 Cambranes, J. C., 37 Cantos de vida y esperanza (Darío), 47 capital fictions: defined, x; dream of, vii–viii; of Latin America, xviii, xx, xxix, 144, 195. See also specific literary works capitalism: and bourgeois social structures, 166; and dispossession , 37, 102, 114–15; and fictions, xi; globalization of, ix, xvi, xxiii, 6, 20, 40; inequalities of, ix, xviii, xxvii, 9, 40, 60, 189, 204 (note 8), 214 (note 12); and instability, 118; logic of, xviii; modernization , ix, xvi, xxi, 86–87, 128; and periphery, xvii–xviii, 86, 128–29, 132, 134, 204 (note 8), 219–20 (note 22...